Talk:Coprolite

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How can a fossil be examined for trace minerals when by definition all of the original material of a fossilized object has been replaced by completely different minerals? That throws kind of a monkey wrench in radiometric dating too, come to think of it.

[edit] Name origin

I can't believe that this page makes no mention of the fact that Othniel Charles Marsh named coprolite after Edward Drinker Cope, his rival in the Bone Wars. I read that in a book on the Bone Wars, but even if it were only a false rumor, it should still get a mention. --Cromwellt|talk|contribs 04:53, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

• If you have some good sources please WP:Be bold 8-) Ephebi 14:33, 30 July 2007 (UTC) --- PS: if this site [1] is right it would suggest that the story is spurious, e.g. "kopros means dung and lithikos means stone in Greek".